Mathias Eistrup

Mathias Eistrup works for SIC4Change within the E-Milpa project in Guatemala, which aims at strengthening the national rural extension service through the creation of a digital platform that will facilitate access to information for small-scale farmers. He has an MSc in Development Studies from SOAS, University of London, where he focused on the role of collective forms of organization for the maintenance of peasant and small-scale farming systems.

Contents authored by Mathias Eistrup

Climate change has a direct impact on Guatemalan small-scale farmers, leading to loss of crops, increased malnutrition and migration flows. Public institutions are critical to improving climate change adaptation strategies, but an agrarian-systems diagnosis carried out by SIC4Change in the Guatemalan dry corridor found some shortcomings with the approach taken by the rural extension services – and suggested some ways these could be corrected.